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Author Bauman, Richard, 1940-

Title Let your words be few : symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeenth-century Quakers / Richard Bauman
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983

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Description viii, 168 pages ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture ; 8
Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture ; 8
Contents Introduction : they say non speak like us -- Let your words be few : speaking and silence in Queaker ideology -- The true ministry of Christ : speaking and the ligitamcy of religious authority -- Christ respects no man's person : the plain language and the rhetoric of impoliteness -- Some plough, some weed out, and some sow : preaching and passage in the process of conversion -- Going naked as a sign : the prophetic mission and the performance of metaphors -- Swear not at all : oaths, social drama, and the conflict over political authority -- Come together to wait upon God : the meeting for worship and the role conflict of the Quaker minister -- Where is the power that was at first? : the prophetic ministry and the routinization of charisma
Analysis Quakers Christian life
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 154-163
Subject Society of Friends -- Doctrinal and controversial works
Society of Friends -- Doctrines.
Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- 17th century
Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends
Pastoral theology -- Society of Friends
Quakers -- Language.
Silence -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- 17th century
Silence -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends
Society of Friends -- Controversial literature.
LC no. 83001982
ISBN 0521255066
0521275148 (paperback)